Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy was born in Pontchâteau, near Nantes, on 5 June 1931. After the Beaux-Arts in Nantes, he studied in Paris at a technical school of photography and cinema, then became assistant to the animation filmmaker Paul Grimault and the documentarist Georges Rouquier. He first made documentary short films before moving on to feature films. In 1962 he married the filmmaker Agnès Varda, whom he had met at the Tours festival. He died in Paris on 27 October 1990.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Umbrellas of CherbourgLes Parapluies de CherbourgJacques Demy · 1964Cinema